I honestly just couldn’t do it after a couple of hours of attempts, I just gave up. I appreciated that at least it wasn’t after half an hour of grinding without a save point though, and the main ending felt like a really good jumping off point for me.
It's neither really.
You pick one of the Travellers as your main character. They can’t leave the party until their story is finished. As you meet the others, in Octopath 1, you’ll have the option to play their opening chapter, which conveniently has them meet the party just before they head into their first dungeon. In Octopath 2, their opening chapter has them meet the party after the conclusion of their first chapter. In either case, you can choose to skip it and play their intro later on by selecting it in a tavern.
The story final boss? It’s a tough one for sure. I had only one member still standing at the end, my last attack was a literal last throw of the dice!
I found the actual final story boss of Octopath 2 tough enough for me, but also rounded the story off in a really cool way. The post-game boss is still there (and is very tough) but I didn’t find it particularly necessary, and at least it isn’t a half hour grind to have another go at it. In Octopath 1, I felt like the postgame boss only really had me wanting to try it for the story connections that are given to you in OT2’s final chapter instead, which felt like OT2 had a much more elegant way to handle it. In that OT2 offers a conclusion, epilogue and a jumping-off point before the massive difficulty spike of a post-game boss fight that demands a lot more mastery of the combat system and is way longer than anything before it.My team is now between levels 35 and 50 and I’m rounding up some optional dungeons to level up before taking on the level 45 recommended story chapters. Still enjoying this a lot although I don’t feel myself as compelled to pick the game up every day. I hope I can finish it before the next big release catches my attention!
Late reply but I stopped playing the original after repeated failures at the last post-story battle over a period of weeks and I’ve been fully prepared to have to do the same here from the announcement.
Im the same, I rarely play post games if it’s a massive difficulty spike aimed at people who want to spend hours reworking the team and breaking down the mechanics. I get why there are there, it’s cool that the designers offer a final challenge to skilled players, but I do like a jumping off point that doesn’t lock the sense of a conclusion behind a huge difficulty spike.Exciting - thanks for the insight! I’m sure I’ll give it a spin but with a readiness to close the book on the game without finishing it if it becomes too frustrating.
My rule of thumb with difficult post-story content in games in general is that if it becomes so frustrating to me that it stops being fun, I call it quits. As you can imagine, this happens more often in RPGs than many other genres
Congratulations! I will never achieve this and I have made my peace with it
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I don't know about the appearance rate, but there are tools to make them appear more often this time around: an accessory and one of the Hunter job's passive skill.
I've not been having problems finding caits, like, at all. Tbh I was wondering if they were easier to find. I guess that's the beauty of RNG
Just out of interest is there an easy way of killing them quickly, like the metal attacks in Dragon Quest? Whenever I saw one I just spammed multi-attack skills and hoped for the best!
That's what I did - they seem to be far more vulnerable to magic attacks, since magic can't miss and they have incredibly high avoid. So any kind of multi-hit magic attack seemed like the way to go, unless there's an easier way I never figured out.
Tossing a soulstone with the first character that can act pretty much always kills them from my experience so far. No idea if their hp scales enough to survive one but even in level 40 areas it's still enough.
If you want to engage with the side content (which is common for most players, due to how the game is designed) it's going to be hard unless you play around 4 hours per day.
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I can't find a thread for the series in general or the first game, so this will have to do. 5th anniversary livestream for OT1 happening in July:
Octopath Traveler 5th Anniversary Official Live Stream set for July 13
Square Enix will host the Octopath Traveler 5th Anniversary Official Live Stream on July 13 at 20:00 JST, the company announced. You will be able to watch it on YouTube and Niconico.
No need to be cautious.
Don't feel bad, I failed somewhere like between 30 to 50 times before winning.
